Katherine Strattman

UAH Earth system science master鈥檚 graduate co-authors glacial lake expansion paper

Sep 03, 2020

A recently graduated master鈥檚 student at 萝莉岛app (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, is a co-author of a research paper in Nature about the rapid growth of glacial lakes since 1990. ...

childhood immunity

Professors to study whether socioeconomics and environment affect child immunity

Feb 03, 2020

Two professors at UAH have teamed up with a genetic sequencing firm at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology to try to understand whether the socioeconomic status of parents and environmental exposures have an impact on the developing immune ...

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UAH鈥檚 aerospace engineering research activities rank fifth in the United States

Jan 06, 2020

Five programs among the top 12 nationally. ...

Dr. Scott Mackaro

UAH alumnus Scott Mackaro named VP, Science, Innovation & Development for AccuWeather

Nov 04, 2019

The 1996 blockbuster movie, Twister cinched Scott Mackaro鈥檚 (鈥�03, M.S., 鈥�08 PhD, Atmospheric Science) decision to become a scientist. Today, Mackaro is Vice President of Science, Innovation, and Development for AccuWeather, a media company p...

Dr. Aaron Naeger, Dr. Susan Alexander and Dr. Michael Newchurch

Conference offers sneak peek at future TEMPO, MAIA satellite health research data

Sep 12, 2019

On Oct. 10 at UAH, researchers who study the effects of atmospheric gases and particulate matter on public health will be preparing to get some new eyes in the sky. ...

ESSC research scientist receives AI for Earth Innovation grant

ESSC research scientist receives AI for Earth Innovation grant

Jan 09, 2019

A research scientist at the UAH Earth System Science Center (ESSC) is one of 11 change-makers selected to receive Microsoft and National Geographic AI for Earth Innovation grants to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to help understand and protect ...

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AGU scholarship recipient uses space-based observations to help define extreme weather

Sep 21, 2018

While the threat of severe weather may strike fear into the hearts of most people, Lena Heuscher is not most people. In fact, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Science at UAH, she sees the arrival of high-impact events as an opp...

John Christy

Climatologists obtain grant to develop new climate sensitivity information

Sep 18, 2018

Climatologists at UAH have received a grant from the United States Dept. of Energy to develop a new method of determining how the Earth鈥檚 climate is responding to greenhouse gases that they think will be more accurate than current methods. ...

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Can Billions of Corn Plants Affect the Weather in Nebraska?

Jul 11, 2018

When thinking of irrigation, most people imagine the huge dry valleys of California 鈥� Sacramento, San Joaquin, Coachella, Imperial 鈥� where so much of our food and fiber is grown. However, it is the state of Nebraska that slakes the thirst of mo...

Angela Burke

Earth system science major finds flood of undergraduate research opportunities at UAH

May 24, 2018

It wasn鈥檛 hard for Angela Burke to narrow down her choices when she set out to earn her bachelor鈥檚 degree in a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) field. "Nothing in STEM held my interest except meteorology!" she says with a laugh....